Grey's Anatomy awakening

Dr. Meredith Grey: At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross.

Dr. Meredith Grey: A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

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Wrap up for August 2007

Hmmm, highlights for the month of August. Was ill for slightly more than a week early august after visiting the night safari on the 4th.

Had a blog entry which I believed touched a few hearts. Had a long awaited mini holiday to KL_Genting in Mid August.

I missed out a blog entry dedicated for this trip. But well, I think I made some people turn their heads for the ladies with this collage. I really like the KL Twin Towers. They are beautiful. I never liked the Taipei 101 building when I was there back in May.

Genting is really a place for relaxation and there's about it. The food is expensive and all of us don't seem to want to spend much in Malaysia. I sure did enjoyed my Wu Bai and China Blue concert over in Genting when Wu Bai executed his dancing moves.

Come to the closing of August, its my birthday, like usual, I got many many friends wishing me a Happy Birthday and I truly appreciate all your well-wishes. Never really celebrated my birthday, lest having my family sing a birthday song for me and my mum cook mee suan for me. Thank you mum.

The very next day, try as I want, I could not make it to the proposal site for Terry and Wenxin. A look at their videos here and it was really touching. You would find 2 videos with the links and there is really another one on youtube but it is supposed to be a private video.

Just today, I was made messenger for my friends. I had to inform B that A could not attend a function with B because A had to be working on Saturday. Complicated right, thinking that A is worried that B will be alone for the function but did not want to go. I got myself confused narrating this bit.

Facts about money

1. More of our fantasies are about money... than sex.

2. If we could have any luxury in the world (and money didn't matter) more of us would choose to spend money on a butler and a maid than anything else.

3. 90% of Americans who own pets buy them Christmas gifts.

6. For $10,000,000 most of us would do almost ANYTHING! Including abandoning our family and friends and our church. A very high percentage of us would, for that same amount of money, change our race or sex. And, 1 in every 14, would even murder someone for ten million bucks.

What's really strange about this is, the statistics remain the same whether it's ten million dollars all the way down to three million. For three million bucks, most of us would do the same horrible things we would do for ten million. But, guess what? Few of us would do these things for a "measly" two million.

7. 92% of us would rather be rich than find the love of our lives.

11. Nearly half of the people who sell their houses with furniture included will take all the light bulbs out of all the lamps when they vacate the premises.

15. Do people care if their bills are crisp? Indeed, they do. Fresh, crisp, clean bills are considered much more valuable than those which are old, wrinkled and dirty.

I once sent a 'dollar bill thank you' letter to a guy who sent a sincere letter back to me bitching the free $1 bill I sent him was wrinkled instead of crisp as I had described in the letter.

16. Let's flip a coin and try to guess whether it will come up heads or tails. Three times as many people guess 'heads' than 'tails'.

30. Two-thirds of Americans say they wouldn't let their spouse spend the night and have sex with another person for a million dollars. Many of these people are liars. There's a big difference being asked if they would do it for a million dollars... as opposed to... handing them a paper sack containing the million fungolas and simply saying, "Here, you can have this if you'll let me sleep with your sweetie tonight."

41. Which would you rather do: Shop till you drop... or... have great sex?

For men, this is a no-brainer.

However, more women would actually rather have an unlimited shopping spree than spend a weekend with a fabulous lover. In fact, the #1 favorite fantasy of women is to have a blank check to shop at their favorite store.

The favorite fantasy of men (at least in my opinion) is what we would like to DO to the sales girl... rather than... what we would like to buy from here.
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These are the few that I really like and they are extracted from here. There are really 42 of them here. But well, it is the American version. Some, I don't agree with in our context.

Singapore Bay Run 2007 Review

Went for the 21 km half marathon on Sunday 26 august 2007. It was a good run starting at an earlier time of 5.30am. Phew. It was early. It was really crowded and the crowd could never be overtaken. Ha ha, I was late for the whistle blow for flag off.

Was really blurry at 5.30am, playing with my digital watch and later realized that it was my "Timer" instead of skipping my "Stopwatch" function. Cock up 1.

The run was well-organized with lots of water-points till the end. The only big big complaint was there was a messed-up at the baggage deposit/collection point at the end of the run. The baggage was really tagged to the participants race bibs but it ended up the people at the collection got confused or something. It was chaotic. One of my friend ended up queuing and waited 2 hours for his bag. Cock up 2.

All and all, I did enjoyed the run was it was good training for the marathon at the end of the year.

To probably every participants' dismay, the Singapore Bay Run marked the fourth endurance race death in two years.
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One friend of mine admitted to resort to running to vent his frustrations. At least, it is healthier than other vices. Got to do longer distances then. Be happy.

Terry's Wedding Proposal

Terry...Brother YOU did it and she say "Yes". A resounding yes. Power! But I have to complain la, you set the standard so high man, it would be hard to plan for another wedding proposal, ermmm, I mean our own ones. I reached Sentosa late, missing the proposal procedures and then the guys were asking me when I getting married. All seems to be very inspired by you. I brushed them off, hey, I'm single now.

Okay, to the pictures.

Proposing at the Underwater World in Sentosa.

Proposing with placards, I like this one the most. Its cliche but it is really touching to want to say this to anyone. This is not sweet-nothings, it is the thought of wanting to so with your loved one.

Skipping the you know question. And the answer is...

Aftermath, dinner at Tripizza along Siloso Beach.

Songs of the sea (what used to be Musical fountain) with fireworks and pyrotechnics.

Oh..the couple..Happy Beginning....

How happy are you?

The wider and deeper your relationships, the happier you're likely to be.

- The findings of 2 American psychologists, who studied the happiness levels of hundreds of students and found that the happiest ones spend least time alone and most time socializing.

So spend more time with your friends and family. Drop them a SMS even if you are damn busy. Find time to have a meal with your family, they will appreciate.

Singapore Bay Run 2007

Today is the expo cum collection of the race pack for the Singapore Bay Run. This is the National Day of Singapore month and this run marks our nations birthday by letting the runners end their run at the Marina Bay National Day Parade Floating Platform. Woohoo.

Collection of the race pack at SAFRA Toa Payoh was prompt and that was no crowd when I was there at 10 past 5. But I must say the hall for the collection was small and rundown. Perhaps, this is because maybe say 80% of the participants are from the ARMY and their race pack are deliver to their camp.

Well, good thing there was ample parking lots when I went.

P.S Sweet. If I leave it at that. This post will be the 9th post of august which is also our national day.

Khalil Fong - Traveling Quartet 四人遊

This MV depicts that both the male and female lead are in a very sticky situation. Both of them are attached but it seems that they are still attracted to each other. The lyrics suggests that they will prowl on each other when one is out of their uneasy relationship with their respective boy/girl friends. Ohhhhh.....

Heart-wrenching..Lovers to Strangers..Or Friends to Lovers..

Seen the doctor

So I had been sick for one week before I finally seen the doctor. So what was I given?

1. Dhasedyl - It's for cough and on the net, people are confessing that they take it as a sleeping aid. Does my family want me to sleep better? Been losing sleep because of this online game. The Desktop Tower Defense. Dun click. you will get hooked too. It's fun and addictive.

2. Cefalexin - is a first-generation cephalosporin antibiotic. See wikipedia. I don't understand the scientific terms.

3. Terbutaline - Now these are the ones that may cause palpitation or tremors. I really like this one because this is really effective in removing the phlegm from me. Hmmm, quick check and this is really to treat trouble breathing in asthmatic cases. Oops, childhood asthma coming back to haunt me.

4. Chlorpheniramine - These are my favorite, the little yellow pills one will take when he down with flu or the common cold. I will have leftovers from my last illness and I will pop one before I go to sleep and usually it will stop the running nose the next day.

21 Things To do with your Girlfriend

1. Plan and share a holiday together. (Anticipation will really hype up the relationship.)
2. Donate a liver to your loved one and married her. Remember Pierre Png?
3. Go to Singtel and look for exact same numbers for subscription. Just having the last 4 digits switch around.
4. Buy her MacDonald's Hotcakes for breakfast and watch her wake up to it.
5. Cut a CD for her with your favorite tracks.
6. Bring her to a MERRY-Go-ROUND and spin each other in it.
7. Plan to bring friends and take her to a place she longed to go.
8. Take her to a movie she anticipated for a long time.
9. Let her enjoy being piggyback by you.
10. Declare each other love for each other on a blog, writing it into a love story.
11. Queue 7 hours for donuts factory donuts for your boyfriend.
12. Fly 16 hours from Singapore to Los Angeles, California just to meet up with your girlfriend (Ermm, the who ah, correct me if I'm wrong).
13. Going through a few car accidents together and surviving them.
14. Talk on the phone with each other till both fall asleep.
15. Get the swatch secret code ring for each other. Putting on a secret date.


16. Send her flowers and make her happy.
17. Run 10 kilometers just to say "HI" and ask for a glass of water.
18. Praise her whenever you could and really be generous on this.
19. Give sound advice on her problems and try to solve it together.
20. Ask her for a dance.
21. Having her to bake a birthday cake for you and showing you appreciate the act. And vice versa.

Toyota Ads in the USA

With advertisements like this, no wonder Toyota has the top selling cars in the world. But how come Japan's unit trust are not making any money?

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Corolla Advertisement (With a hint of Lesbianism)

Explosive Baby Powder

This is so funny, I watch it like 51 times.

Night Safari Collage

This is the exact same one that Terryaki posted on his blog. He is a designer and a good friend. Hope I do not infringe any copyright laws. :-)

Night Safari Singapore 4 Aug 07

Did anyone say night safari was romantic? Hmmm, it was a really dark place, and no FLASH photography is allowed in the premises as it will hurt the animals.
Grand Entrance
Queuing for the Tram (Hey, This is Singapore. We have to queue!)
Lovers in Night Safari
Friends in night safari
Wolf from "Creatures of the night". She had a hard time performing, tried very hard to wolf-whistle, must be tried seeing the crowd. Only photograph visible of the animals because I never use FLASH photography with my point n shoot camera.

NIGHT SAFARI - World's First in Singapore

Digital Lifestyle

Does your digital lifestyle get the better of you? Here are 10 signs.

1. You can't sit through a movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz.
2. You sign off messages by putting ":-)" next to your name.
3. You wake up at 3 am to go to the toilet and check your email on the way back to bed.
4. You have never played solitaire with a real deck of cards.
5. Your dog has it own home page.
6. You try entering your password on the microwave.
7. You remember all your friends by their MSN nicknames.
8. Instead of calling you to come back for dinner, your mum sends you an email invitation.
9. You tell your friends you broke up with your girlfriend/boyfriend, because you upgraded to a new one.
10. When your teacher asks what sound a mouse makes, you answer, "click, ma'am!" instead of "squeak".

2nd Korean Killed in Afghanistan

18 Korean Christians, including 15 women, kidnapped in Afghanistan on 19 July, 2007. A second Korean was killed yesterday. They were kidnapped by the Taliban and held hostages in exchange for 23 Taliban rebels captured by the Afghan government.

Whatever is happening is scary, these Korean went on a peace mission but were held hostages and 2 are killed. Is this terrorism? Terrorism is his name. Globalization may just be the cause of it. As the world becomes smaller, the good heart are not confined to spaces and they really want to get out and help the more unfortunate. They are in danger and the whole of South Korean mourns for them. It is making headlines around the world. Their family are the worse-off here, knowing that their loved ones are in tremendous danger but could not do a thing.

I plead for the Kidnapped Koreans here to be released. I hope my "voice", no matter how small, could be heard by someone out there.

Prayers for the Koreans.

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